Barré glacier
| Barré glacier | ||
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| location | Adélieland , East Antarctica | |
| length | 8 kilometers | |
| width | Max. 8 kilometers | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ S , 138 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| drainage | Lake D'Urville ( Southern Ocean ) | |
The Barré Glacier is an 8 km long and equally wide glacier in the East Antarctic Adélieland . It flows from the continental ice in a northerly direction to the coast, which it reaches immediately east of Cape Pépin .
A position was determined on the basis of aerial photographs of the US American Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him after Michel Barré (* 1919), head of the winter team of the French Antarctic expedition, which lasted from 1951 to 1952 and explored the coastline far to the west from the position of this glacier.
Web links
- Barré Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Barré Glacier on geographic.org (English)